Odds and ends...

Been toying with a lot of stuff this past weekend so this is my attempt at sorting some of it out. 

The weekend started well with the marathon clinic wrap up party. Always a good event, it was great to see everyone and to watch the video created from the months of training. Inspiring for sure and made me look forward to the next marathon clinic summer 2012. Our goal race will be Chicago, one of the 5 major races that all runners must do at least once in their life. 

Of course, yours truly woke up with a slight hangover so hot yoga class was very much needed. One must sweat all this alcohol... as well as drink lots and lots of water. While walking to the gym, my sometimes running buddy/gym partner and I chatted about how well we do when we're accountable to someone re training and/or weight loss. Like me, he's struggling with motivation and will power. So we decided to create a page on Facebook where we could all meet and share our training/weight loss battle, whatever works for us. This is a place where we can find inspiration, encouragement, and a place where we can't lie because if we lie, it's only to ourselves. 

Armed with the motivation to get thing started, we went ahead and created the page. We now have 19 members and I think it will be great. Of course, when you start thinking about what you eat/do it becomes a little more involved than you thought it would. Still, it's a good exercise. 

That evening I decided to join the marathon group for their run, doing a distance that would work for me so 16k was the distance I was comfortable tackling. Don't really want to push myself but I was happy to head out again on a Sunday morning. It was a bit of a bummer though as I had hoped to hear back from a guy I met last weekend but as it turned out, he hadn't received my email response. 

Yes, the dating front seems to be heating up a little bit. Met a guy who is into running and who is training for the Alcatraz Triathlon in San Francisco in 2012. Impressive... so we met for coffee last Saturday, beer on Wednesday and were supposed to go running on Sunday. But since he didn't get my email, we didn't firm up the plans. I'm hoping to work something out in a few weeks. 

So I head out yesterday morning to the Running Room. Many are there, it's great, the weather is fantastic, sunny, dry, not much wind. Perfect condition for a great run. We had received a route the day before but a group had decided to do an out/back along the Lakeshore instead. I'm sporting my new Adidas top I purchased the day before, grey with pink arm warmers. They worked out great, love them. We then went to Tim Horton's to have a recovery drink (I had hot chocolate) and to talk about running, our fellow runners, various races and crazy stuff we do as runners. Great camaraderie. Then it was time to go home and rest before heading out to dinner at friends' home. Perfect ending to the perfect weekend. 

So today is the start of the new fitness routine. I have updated it again... and like anything else, it is subject to change. Here's the new schedule:

Monday: Spinning followed by YogaFit Sweat (Goodlife - 137 Yonge Street location)
Tuesday: Running with the Rats (my tempo run)
Wednesday: Body Pump (Goodlife McCaul/Queen Street location)
Thursday: Running with the Lululemon
Friday: Running - MP starting at 6k building up to 10k
Saturday: Hot Yoga
Sunday: LSD run

I had decided to switch spinning from Monday to Thursday and do Body Pump on the Monday but the gym doesn't have that class that day. Grrr... But I think this schedule will work out ok after all. I just have to remember to take it easier for the first few weeks as my body will need time to adjust to the new workouts. 

But I'm excited to get going for sure. I want to feel good in my clothes, especially after buying a new dress on Saturday!